Re: status

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:45:15PM -0600, Lakin Wecker wrote:
> On May 23, 2004 04:28 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'd *love* to have a test of tomorrow's CD image build (or whenever
> > it is that gets libdebian-installer4-udeb 0.25.really.0.22), to make
> > sure it really doesn't require workarounds any more. I'll be testing
> > it myself I hope, but I'll be on my way to Brazil by tomorrow
> > evening so may not be exactly responsive for a bit. If we can get
> > confirmation that new partman-newworld and yaboot-installer do their
> > jobs when the rest of the installer isn't breaking under their feet,
> > we can get them moved into testing.
> >
> > Although it isn't directly relevant to d-i, some post-installation
> > testing would also be good: making sure tasks work reasonably, and
> > the like. We've been pretty light on such testing for powerpc.
> 
> The CD's just posted in the past few hours (may 23rd daily's) fair
> better during the partition, but still do not detect the Bootstrap
> partition with the yaboot installer.  Just let me know which CD's to
> test and I can give them a test for the next 36 hours, after that I
> have to make sure the machine is useable for another week of work.   I
> will have another powerbook on which I will be installing debian in
> the coming weeks so that will provide another test bed.

The 20040524 sid_d-i build (either businesscard or netinst) is the one
I'm interested in.

> Post install:  I fought through an install with Beta-4 after hacking
> up every script that yabootconfig uses to find the programs correctly
> and was able to get debian up and going fairly nicely.  Was running it
> for the past week at work with no problems besides being utterly
> unable to build a 2.6 kernel which booted.  Alas, that's my fault not
> debian's.   

There's always the 2.6 kernels in the archive ... hopefully we'll have
2.6 d-i CD images going soonish, too.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]